Greyham28 (2022-2023)

Many and various, but probably not too far from what many college students do.

I forgot about this site. Updated for accuracy. Advice to future cycles: Apply early even if your PS suffers. You'll note the acceptance at all schools applied to prior to 12/1 (w/ scholarships, largely) but rejections/WLs after 1/15. Wish I'd known.

One other note: If you get large scholarships, share those with schools that award less scholly $ if you think it might help. UT might've upped my $ based on my full schol to CU which would've been nice but I figured they weren't too comparable. Have to be reasonable, of course; don't want to piss anyone off, but it's worth asking in many cases. A few of my fellow UT students increased their scholarships with full rides from lower ranked schools than Colorado.

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Ultimately my decision was between CU-Boulder, UT-Austin and NYU and went with UT. Full Scholarship to CU was great and I love Boulder and CU but chose UT for a number of (largely personal) reasons. I dislike the Northeast and so passed on NYU plus no $$ made it scary expensive. Very depressed about Berkeley, not surprised by Stanford but would've loved Nor Cal. Alas. Passed on UCLA b/c I'm not a So Cal kinda guy; UT does seem a bit southern for me, but prof's here are incredibly brilliant and other students are very smart/challenging/thoughtful individuals who I am able to make easy friends with.

UT has treated me great so far; really like it here. Have not, for a moment, regretted passing on NYU but I do sometimes wonder if CU wouldn't have been a better choice.

To be honest, if you're considering Law School, I'd advise against it. Unless you've dreamt of law school forever and/or have some idea of how it will serve your specific career goals, there is really no reason for a J.D. It sounds cool, but there are so many people here who, like me, just thought a J.D. was the next logical step and we are all effed in terms of making a living much less paying off debt (even though most of us have rather large scholarships and therefore less debt than many law school students).

Seriously, even a top-20 school doesn't constitute a good investment without a huge scholarship -- esp. in this market where you are likely to make less as a lawyer than you are as a third year w/ a B.A. in some firm -- and I would advise against law school to pretty much anyone without a clear, justifiable reason for pursuing the J.D.

Feel free to msg w/ any Q's; will do my best to answer but it could be months.

NOTES:
- Depressed about R at Berkeley; probably should've used generic PS and applied in October.

- Like UT because it's got the best faculty of any school I've visited/seen and it's a nice campus w/ lots of sky and open space. Disadvantaged by its location in TEXAS. Ugh.

- Love Boulder and CU-Boulder. Open space, sky, mountains, outdoors sports. man is Boulder great.

- Can't remember my exact acceptance at NYU exactly; maybe early to mid Feb?

- Seriously should've applied earlier to Duke, G-Town, UVA, etc. Can't say I would've been accepted, but it kinda hurt getting those WL letters. Not a great year for applicants to wait 'til January to submit.